Example sentences of "['s] [noun pl] [modal v] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan 's activities must have been well known to the police . ’ |
| 2 | Margery 's reactions may have been physically extreme , but her account highlights the peculiar potential in the liturgy to trigger existential experiences of the faith . |
| 3 | Roland 's xeroxes were cleaner and clearer than the faded coppery-grey script of the originals ; indeed the copy-ink had a black and gleaming freshness , the machine 's rollers must have been newly inked . |
| 4 | Lillian Faderman accepts that women 's relations may have been less physical in the past , but asserts that it is possible that such relations were still lesbian : |
| 5 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 6 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 7 | The coverage given to Mr Allen 's remarks must have been particularly galling to Mr Giuliani 's backers in the Republican party who have been unable to make crime an issue in the race . |
| 8 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 9 | But Mr Leonard 's injuries could have been much worse if a mystery middle-aged man had not risked his own safety and stopped the thugs ' attack . |
| 10 | She had the feeling that this morning 's events would have been faithfully reported by Marie and she sincerely hoped that the girl did not add to her earnings by serving as a waitress here . |